Acknowledgements List of Tables 1. Introduction 2. Political and Socio-economic Environment 3. Administration of the Survey 4. Demographic Characteristics 5. Honour, Pre-marital Encounters and Blood Relationships 6. Decision Making and Family Authority Structure 7. Marital Adjustments, Dynamics, and Interrelationships 8. Chapter summary and Conclusions Appendix Bibliography Index
Biography
Abe W Ata is an Australian citizen of Palestinian Lebanese Lutheran background, born in Bethlehem. He graduated in social psychology at the American University of Beirut, gained his PhD at Melbourne University, and was thereafter nominated as a delegate to the United Nations World Youth Assembly in New York; and as “Australian of the Year” in 2015 and 2011. His publications include 154 journal articles, 20 books, and 23 entries in the Encyclopaedia of Australian Religions (CUP), the Encyclopedia of the Australian People (CUP) and the Encyclopaedia of Melbourne (CUP). These include Attitudes of Interfaith Students in the West: Educational Insights from Australia, New Zealand and Germany (Brill 2024/5); Muslim Minorities and Social Cohesion: Cultural Fragmentation in the West (Routledge); Islam in the West: Perceptions and Reactions (OUP); Educational Reciprocity and Adaptability (Routledge); Us and Them (Australian Academic Press; The West Bank Palestinian Family (Routledge); Catholics and Catholicism in Contemporary Australia ( D. Lovell Publishing); Intermarriage between Christians and Muslims (D. Lovell Publishing). Professor Ata is at both Victoria University and Latrobe University. He was a Visiting Professor at Freiburg University in Germany during 2018–2020.
